Yet the Avs were thought of as a team that signed a bunch of big money free agents even though we were really losing tons of our own free agents to the Rangers and even Uwe Krupp to the Red Wings (Krupp and his sled dogs turned out to be horrible for Detroit ).

Yes, the Wings ended up getting 32 games played out of Krupp for the $16 million they ended up paying him over 4 years. $500,000 per game, not a bad gig if you can get it.